Why it's time for Liberty to show true F1 leadership
The chaotic coronavirus situation, as well as the FIA/Ferrari controversy over the Italian squad's engine, is increasing the pressure on F1 owners Liberty Media to act like a true leader. Jonathan Noble says it's crunch time for the American company.
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Up until a few weeks ago, the view of many in Formula 1 was that the success or failure of its owner Liberty Media could only be properly judged on how its 2021 rules vision panned out.
After all, a lot of the problems that F1 has faced since the American media giants took over were there long before Liberty's staff had got their feet under the desks.
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Jonathan Noble is Motorsport.com’s Formula 1 editor. Having graduated from University of Sussex Jonathan worked for sports news agency Collings Sports reporting on F1, F3, touring cars and other sports, with articles appearing in The Daily Telegraph, The Independent, Reuters, Autosport and other publications. In 1999 he moved to Haymarket Publishing to become a senior editor at Autosport Special Projects, and one year later he became Autosport’s grand prix editor. In 2015 he moved to Motorsport Network, becoming the F1 editor for Motorsport.com. He is also a member of the Guild of Motoring Writers, and sits on the FIA Media Council.
Jonathan has won multiple awards for journalism - in 1991 he was the winner of the Guild of Motoring Writers’ Sir William Lyons’ Award for young journalists, in 2010 he was awarded the Outstanding Individual accolade for consumer journalism in the Haymarket wards, in 2011 he won Haymarket’s Scoop of the Year, and in 2018 he was awarded a prestigious Medaglia d’Oro at the Lorenzo Bandini Awards for his contribution to F1 journalism.
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